[PATCH AUTOSEL 6.14 313/642] tcp: be less liberal in TSEcr received while in SYN_RECV state

Sasha Levin
2025-05-05T22:26:43Z

From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>

[ Upstream commit 3ba075278c11cdb19e2dbb80362042f1b0c08f74 ]

Yong-Hao Zou mentioned that linux was not strict as other OS in 3WHS,
for flows using TCP TS option (RFC 7323)

As hinted by an old comment in tcp_check_req(),
we can check the TSEcr value in the incoming packet corresponds
to one of the SYNACK TSval values we have sent.

In this patch, I record the oldest and most recent values
that SYNACK packets have used.

Send a challenge ACK if we receive a TSEcr outside
of this range, and increase a new SNMP counter.

nstat -az | grep TSEcrRejected
TcpExtTSEcrRejected 0 0.0

Due to TCP fastopen implementation, do not apply yet these checks
for fastopen flows.

v2: No longer use req->num_timeout, but treq->snt_tsval_first
to detect when first SYNACK is prepared. This means
we make sure to not send an initial zero TSval.
Make sure MPTCP and TCP selftests are passing.
Change MIB name to TcpExtTSEcrRejected

v1: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/CADVnQykD8i4ArpSZaPKaoNxLJ2if2ts9m4As+=Jvdkrgx1qMHw@mail.gmail.com/T/

Reported-by: Yong-Hao Zou <yonghaoz1994@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) <matttbe@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@amazon.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250225171048.3105061-1-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
.../networking/net_cachelines/snmp.rst | 1 +
include/linux/tcp.h | 2 ++
include/uapi/linux/snmp.h | 1 +
net/ipv4/proc.c | 1 +
net/ipv4/syncookies.c | 1 +
net/ipv4/tcp_input.c | 1 +
net/ipv4/tcp_minisocks.c | 26 +++++++++++--------
net/ipv4/tcp_output.c | 6 +++++
8 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/networking/net_cachelines/snmp.rst b/Documentation/networking/net_cachelines/snmp.rst
index 90ca2d92547d4..bc96efc92cf5b 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/net_cachelines/snmp.rst
+++ b/Documentation/networking/net_cachelines/snmp.rst
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ unsigned_long LINUX_MIB_TIMEWAITRECYCLED
unsigned_long LINUX_MIB_TIMEWAITKILLED
unsigned_long LINUX_MIB_PAWSACTIVEREJECTED
unsigned_long LINUX_MIB_PAWSESTABREJECTED
+unsigned_long LINUX_MIB_TSECR_REJECTED
unsigned_long LINUX_MIB_DELAYEDACKLOST
unsigned_long LINUX_MIB_LISTENOVERFLOWS
unsigned_long LINUX_MIB_LISTENDROPS
diff --git a/include/linux/tcp.h b/include/linux/tcp.h
index f88daaa76d836..159b2c59eb627 100644
--- a/include/linux/tcp.h
+++ b/include/linux/tcp.h
@@ -160,6 +160,8 @@ struct tcp_request_sock {
u32 rcv_isn;
u32 snt_isn;
u32 ts_off;
+ u32 snt_tsval_first;
+ u32 snt_tsval_last;
u32 last_oow_ack_time; /* last SYNACK */
u32 rcv_nxt; /* the ack # by SYNACK. For
* FastOpen it's the seq#
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/snmp.h b/include/uapi/linux/snmp.h
index 848c7784e684c..eb9fb776fdc3e 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/snmp.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/snmp.h
@@ -186,6 +186,7 @@ enum
LINUX_MIB_TIMEWAITKILLED, /* TimeWaitKilled */
LINUX_MIB_PAWSACTIVEREJECTED, /* PAWSActiveRejected */
LINUX_MIB_PAWSESTABREJECTED, /* PAWSEstabRejected */
+ LINUX_MIB_TSECRREJECTED, /* TSEcrRejected */
LINUX_MIB_PAWS_OLD_ACK, /* PAWSOldAck */
LINUX_MIB_DELAYEDACKS, /* DelayedACKs */
LINUX_MIB_DELAYEDACKLOCKED, /* DelayedACKLocked */
diff --git a/net/ipv4/proc.c b/net/ipv4/proc.c
index affd21a0f5728..10cbeb76c2745 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/proc.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/proc.c
@@ -189,6 +189,7 @@ static const struct snmp_mib snmp4_net_list[] = {
SNMP_MIB_ITEM("TWKilled", LINUX_MIB_TIMEWAITKILLED),
SNMP_MIB_ITEM("PAWSActive", LINUX_MIB_PAWSACTIVEREJECTED),
SNMP_MIB_ITEM("PAWSEstab", LINUX_MIB_PAWSESTABREJECTED),
+ SNMP_MIB_ITEM("TSEcrRejected", LINUX_MIB_TSECRREJECTED),
SNMP_MIB_ITEM("PAWSOldAck", LINUX_MIB_PAWS_OLD_ACK),
SNMP_MIB_ITEM("DelayedACKs", LINUX_MIB_DELAYEDACKS),
SNMP_MIB_ITEM("DelayedACKLocked", LINUX_MIB_DELAYEDACKLOCKED),
diff --git a/net/ipv4/syncookies.c b/net/ipv4/syncookies.c
index 1948d15f1f281..25976fa7768c9 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/syncookies.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/syncookies.c
@@ -279,6 +279,7 @@ static int cookie_tcp_reqsk_init(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb,
ireq->smc_ok = 0;

treq->snt_synack = 0;
+ treq->snt_tsval_first = 0;
treq->tfo_listener = false;
treq->txhash = net_tx_rndhash();
treq->rcv_isn = ntohl(th->seq) - 1;
diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
index 23cf8f4a37214..1b09b4d76c296 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
@@ -7089,6 +7089,7 @@ static void tcp_openreq_init(struct request_sock *req,
tcp_rsk(req)->rcv_isn = TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->seq;
tcp_rsk(req)->rcv_nxt = TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->seq + 1;
tcp_rsk(req)->snt_synack = 0;
+ tcp_rsk(req)->snt_tsval_first = 0;
tcp_rsk(req)->last_oow_ack_time = 0;
req->mss = rx_opt->mss_clamp;
req->ts_recent = rx_opt->saw_tstamp ? rx_opt->rcv_tsval : 0;
diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_minisocks.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_minisocks.c
index dfdb7a4608a85..0d4ff5f2352f8 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_minisocks.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_minisocks.c
@@ -665,6 +665,7 @@ struct sock *tcp_check_req(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb,
struct sock *child;
const struct tcphdr *th = tcp_hdr(skb);
__be32 flg = tcp_flag_word(th) & (TCP_FLAG_RST|TCP_FLAG_SYN|TCP_FLAG_ACK);
+ bool tsecr_reject = false;
bool paws_reject = false;
bool own_req;

@@ -674,8 +675,13 @@ struct sock *tcp_check_req(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb,

if (tmp_opt.saw_tstamp) {
tmp_opt.ts_recent = READ_ONCE(req->ts_recent);
- if (tmp_opt.rcv_tsecr)
+ if (tmp_opt.rcv_tsecr) {
+ if (inet_rsk(req)->tstamp_ok && !fastopen)
+ tsecr_reject = !between(tmp_opt.rcv_tsecr,
+ tcp_rsk(req)->snt_tsval_first,
+ READ_ONCE(tcp_rsk(req)->snt_tsval_last));
tmp_opt.rcv_tsecr -= tcp_rsk(req)->ts_off;
+ }
/* We do not store true stamp, but it is not required,
* it can be estimated (approximately)
* from another data.
@@ -790,18 +796,14 @@ struct sock *tcp_check_req(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb,
tcp_rsk(req)->snt_isn + 1))
return sk;

- /* Also, it would be not so bad idea to check rcv_tsecr, which
- * is essentially ACK extension and too early or too late values
- * should cause reset in unsynchronized states.
- */
-
/* RFC793: "first check sequence number". */

- if (paws_reject || !tcp_in_window(TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->seq,
- TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->end_seq,
- tcp_rsk(req)->rcv_nxt,
- tcp_rsk(req)->rcv_nxt +
- tcp_synack_window(req))) {
+ if (paws_reject || tsecr_reject ||
+ !tcp_in_window(TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->seq,
+ TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->end_seq,
+ tcp_rsk(req)->rcv_nxt,
+ tcp_rsk(req)->rcv_nxt +
+ tcp_synack_window(req))) {
/* Out of window: send ACK and drop. */
if (!(flg & TCP_FLAG_RST) &&
!tcp_oow_rate_limited(sock_net(sk), skb,
@@ -810,6 +812,8 @@ struct sock *tcp_check_req(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb,
req->rsk_ops->send_ack(sk, skb, req);
if (paws_reject)
NET_INC_STATS(sock_net(sk), LINUX_MIB_PAWSESTABREJECTED);
+ else if (tsecr_reject)
+ NET_INC_STATS(sock_net(sk), LINUX_MIB_TSECRREJECTED);
return NULL;
}

diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
index bc95d2a5924fd..6031d7f7f5198 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
@@ -941,6 +941,12 @@ static unsigned int tcp_synack_options(const struct sock *sk,
opts->options |= OPTION_TS;
opts->tsval = tcp_skb_timestamp_ts(tcp_rsk(req)->req_usec_ts, skb) +
tcp_rsk(req)->ts_off;
+ if (!tcp_rsk(req)->snt_tsval_first) {
+ if (!opts->tsval)
+ opts->tsval = ~0U;
+ tcp_rsk(req)->snt_tsval_first = opts->tsval;
+ }
+ WRITE_ONCE(tcp_rsk(req)->snt_tsval_last, opts->tsval);
opts->tsecr = READ_ONCE(req->ts_recent);
remaining -= TCPOLEN_TSTAMP_ALIGNED;
}
--
2.39.5